So, it comes as a surprise that the government has jailed five men under the act of public indecency … for smoking cigarettes and eating in public during Ramadan.

The incident happened in May 2017, according to Al Bawaba, and as a result, activists formed a hashtag "مش بالسيف", (which means, not against my will), to protest their right to break their fast in public without fear of being jailed or fined.

The campaign has gained momentum, and the group is asking people to take to the streets on May 27, for the second year in a row, to protest. In the meantime, the Twittersphere has a lot to say about it, but not everyone is in agreement.

@hitlimam says: "We live in a country that imprisons those who don't fast in Ramadan! A country that imposes fasting on all and issues prison sentences on anyone for eating a piece of bread! A country that is asks for modernity but imposes on a large percentage of its citizens to live like thieves as punishment for not fasting."

But @ibraheemalthahe is for it. He says: "You removed yourself from the Muslim countries. You allowed muslim women to marry non-muslim men. Where is Tunis going?" and then he hashtags it #بالسيف ("by force", in Arabic).

@WitnessTV2 is just annoyed with all the chatter around this. She says: "Most of those against this topic are just talking for the sake of talking. They aren't looking at the details of the topic and they don't belong to Tunis or live in it and they're just philosophizing."

She then uses popular phrases to politely say "be quiet' in different dialects. In Tunisian: "For God's sake, reward us with your silence." In Egyptian: "Give us drops of your silence."